Where: Fulton County, Illinois (40.5° N, 89.9° W: paleocoordinates 4.8° S, 24.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Carbondale Formation, Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

• Bituminous coal from the Colchester (no. 2) coal

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; lithified coal

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, original chitin

Collection methods: chemical, peroxide, sieve

• Repository: Ulster Museum (BELUM)

Primary reference: A. J. Jeram. 1994. Carboniferous Orthosterni and their relationships to living scorpions. Palaeontology 37:513-550 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153605: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.12.2013

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